There may have been better-jammed versions of Playing, but to have one un-marred by Donna's ear shredding caterwauling moves this one to the top of the heap.

Just needed a good reminder of why i still enjoy the music of the Grateful Dead after so many years and oh so many roads..

The initial PITB moves quickly from lyrics to jam sans DJG.
I wasn't sure if they were going to do a full Uncle John's
but sure enough they go for the whole enchilada
>UJB has much depth and the segway between the verses
are well explored> then they space there way back to the Main Ten.
For 73 they had the Dark Star or the Other One as the primary Second Set launch vehicle so it is sweet to see them chose this jam
as their vehicle for interstellar overdrive.
Bobby has the vocal coda for Playin' reprise all to himself.
Strong finish as Garcia finds a riff and the rest of the band comes alongside including Keith supporting it.
Just going to listen
1 in 10,000 come for the show..
I will have to listen to this show in its entirety again but the setlist is definitely outside the box with both Row Jimmy and Greatest Story
not usually appearing so late in the 2nd set.
There is some great audience banter after PITB, some girl is trying to get Phil to do something? She calls him selfish. Probably not getting any requests that way.
Sound thins out for Row Jimmy

Numerous bad, fair, good, better, and awesome recordings of this show exist. This is the best. Dusborne's MTXs are all brilliant.

For years I had an audience tape of this show. We were sitting literally 2nd to last row in the balcony with 8 out of town friends who came from New York, Worcester, Cobleskill and Boston College. I had 8th row left center every night from WBCN, but chose to sit with my friends way upstairs. I thought it was the best of the 3 nights, even though things got a little rowdy up front.
This is a wonderful mix of the show. Very well done.
Postscript: We had clearance back at BCN after the show and the Dead ended up coming up to hang out, less Jerry and Phil who were at the Sheraton next door. I went back to my apartment after an hour and went and recorded the festivities at the station where Weir and Sparky (one of the road crew) were talking up amyl nitrate. Little Bill who was the jock had to manipulate the mike knobs to keep such content to a minimum. Bill just came out with a wonderful documentary on WBCN called "The Revolution". And so it was!
I got to meet Sparky about 87 and gave him a copy of that radio show after the Music Hall. He flipped. Very appreciative. Sparky left the Dead after Rex passed on. Apparently they were very close.